as in plebeian
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Recent Examples of commoner
Gang plays Cheon-young, a commoner who is enslaved but never relinquishes his dignity.
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Nettles is a commoner who manages to tame a wild dragon, known as Sheepstealer.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
Instead, similar to Yasmin, he’s almost constantly befuddled that all his rank and access and riches can’t make the commoners like him.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2024
But there was a lot in Franklin's path from Boston commoner to Enlightenment celebrity to feel good about, and there's a twinkle in his eye on every page.
—The Week Us, theweek, 17 Sep. 2024
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Nettles is a commoner who manages to tame a wild dragon, known as Sheepstealer.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
Instead, similar to Yasmin, he’s almost constantly befuddled that all his rank and access and riches can’t make the commoners like him.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2024
But there was a lot in Franklin's path from Boston commoner to Enlightenment celebrity to feel good about, and there's a twinkle in his eye on every page.
—The Week Us, theweek, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commoner
Noun
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Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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But an unpleasant incident with a public transit plebeian leads Leighton to ponder the direction of her life.Rachel Seo, Variety, 2 Dec. 2024
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Occasionally, like tonight, a chiseled pleb or square-jawed gym owner will pass muster, taking her to some exclusive club in Tribeca.Seija Rankin, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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But because these monsters have yet to develop any fungal armor, runners are susceptible to gunshots, knives, and any other weaponry that would take out your average pleb.Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
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Later in the novel, Hans’s mind turns to the brutality of occupation: If in the course of a five-day plan, 200,000 Berliners were removed by 50,000, these 50,000 proletarians would be fused into a collective by the shock of having killed.Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
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As a proudly class-conscious proletarian, Martin is naturally supportive of worker strikes.J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020
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The film is about this everyman finding his inner hero.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2024
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Following building and loan manager George Bailey on an odyssey of rediscovery, the film continues to hold a place in the hearts of multiple generations with its message of value and appreciation for the everyman in America just trying to help his fellow neighbor get by.Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Commoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commoner. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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